software engineering

One of the most pointless principles in the field of computer science. Entails nothing but common sense applied to programming, and generally takes up too much of your time to create stupid diagrams so people less intelligent than yourself can understand how it fits together.
Software engineering was the stupidest class I had to take in college, it reminded me of the kind of work my friends in the School of Business do.
by Phil October 16, 2004
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software engineering

Designing and creating programs (or software) to accomplish tasks for public use.
I majored in software engineering so I could help fix the AOL problems... oh wait, that's impossible, &*$%
by Deci January 22, 2004
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software engineering

The process of creating and developing a piece of software for distribution.
The company's software engineering team developed a program to share files.
by jordan October 09, 2003
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software engineering

A widely used noun that is a oxymoron. Software cannot be engineered.
I rigorously derived a mathematically provable peice of psuedo-code. (Yeah, right...)
by S. Rittenhouse February 02, 2004
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software engineering

1. An engineering discipline that is increasingly turning into a commodity much like cattle farming in the agriculture industry.

2. Disposable code factories, not cost effective to reuse or refurbish.
If those software engineers don't get the project done by the deadline, we will replace them with ones from India.
by Snowcat October 10, 2003
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software engineering

process which involves a sledge hammer and microsoft os.
fatal error one oh one..hmmm,guess i better do some software engineering..
by wired_duck January 27, 2004
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software engineering

The process of designing and developing a piece of binary code that does stuff like sharing MP3s, creating popups, sending out spams...
software engineering? It's more like software degenerating!
by Billy Gate January 23, 2004
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